'I've lived in this town my whole life,' Pat Ward said. 'I've seen them all come and go. When I was a kid, it was the absentee landlords. Then the BRA. Then it was the condo flippers. Now it's these guys filling in every open space. They make money but they don't have to live with what they do.'She looked out the window again. 'It might be legal,' she said, 'but that doesn't make it right.'